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Railroads of Meridian / J. Parker Lamb, with contributions by David H. Bridges and David S. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, J. Parker.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present.
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Mississippi--Meridian--History.
- Railroads.
- Mississippi--History.
- Mississippi.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 162 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the town's rail facilities in the 1850's through the current era of large-scale consolidation. Presently, there are only seven mega-size rail systems in the United States, three of which serve Meridian, making it an important junction on one of the nation's four major transcontinental routes. The recent creation of a nationally prominent high-speed freight line between Meridian and Shreveport, the ""Meridian Speedway,"" has allowed the Union
- Contents:
- Antebellum beginnings
- A new start
- A new century
- Entrepreneur extraordinaire
- Roller-coaster ride
- A tumultuous decade
- Coming of age
- Postwar metamorphosis
- More changes
- Another renaissance
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613683359
- 9781280772580
- 1280772581
- 9780253005960
- 0253005965
- OCLC:
- 795895462
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